Have you ever had a nice rooster?

[heatherfeather77]

I have 3 roosters that are a year old and they are very sweet and gentle.. they actually seem like dogs then rooster' s lol

 

[heatherfeather77]

My bantam Cochin rooster is a gentleman.
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he's beautiful

 

[Gillx]

My first Spangled Hamburg Cock was unbelievably aggressive, he was a gorgeous retired show champ. Once he ended up hanging upside down from my jeans, his spurs hooked in after a high strike. I was glad when he died. The second one, from same breeder, was a sweetie, but the hen (a very tame pet) wasn't impressed & kept absconding to adjoining allotments (permanently eventually) to find another hard-case. I was given a millefleur Pekin cock once who was a real softie. I took him to one of my activity groups for physically disabled people & he was passed round from lap to lap all day, the people loved him. Pity I couldn't keep him, he was a serious crower so went to live with 5 bantie hens with a little boy on a farm.

 

[GldnValleyHens]

My beautiful EE rooster Ricky Ricardo has recently disappeared, and I'm sure a coyote took him. I am so sad!
He was blind in one eye, and very docile. He could be walked up to and tapped, then he would jump in the air, for he would not see you coming with his bad eye. We only had him since last summer, and I miss him terribly! But now we are getting a birchen bantam rooster, to be buddies with our Silkie roo and D'Uccle roo. If we didn't take him he was gonna get eaten! So now we will have a Little Ricky!

 

[chicknmania]

WE've had chickens (and lots and lots of roosters) since 2005. We've only had one mean one. It was a bantam Checkered Cochin. And his brother was the sweetest rooster you could possibly want. All of our other roosters have been gentle. Not necessarily lap pets, but certainly calm and gentle to be around, and would never attack a person.

 

[BantammChick]

I have a nice rooster. He is a barred rock.

 

[PattJ]

I know that it's par for the course for roosters to be pretty mean and aggressive, especially the older they get But have you ever had a nice rooster that would say let you pet him was friendly etc.?

The only roo I've had that was mean was a mille fleur. He didn't last long at my coop! Most of my roos just ignore me, but I had a white frizzle roo that was a total love. Liked being held and petted, followed me around. He was also very tolerant of my banty roo, altho that banty did know his place in "pecking order!"

 

[Genevieve Levicki]

My silkie rooster is the sweetest bird ever. Always comes running when he sees me, does a little dance (apparently he thinks I'm a chicken), clucks giddily at me when he's found good food. But he's terrible at keeping his flock safe from harm. And my buff orpington isn't too smitten with him, poor guy is too small for her taste.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

It's funny, but roosters are a little like cats. It's not so much that they're inherently aggressive. It's more like some are crazy friendly and some are just crazy. The rest are inbetween; standoffish but not aggressive and happy to eat food if you leave it for them. They give you stinkeye when you get close but otherwise ignore you. It's got a bit to do with nurture and a bit to do with nature.. But I have found most roos to be perfectly OK.

If they're not, then they are perfectly OK chicken soups. No need to keep a crazy roo when there are nicer ones to be had a dollar a piece on Craigslist five days a week.

 

[theoldchick]

Son of Steele. This massive rooster has not one aggressive feather on his body. No, he's not tame but I can enter the coop to clean away poop, collect eggs and don't have to worry about him. Never drops his shoulder or any other challenging behavior. Doesn't sneak about and charge when you are not looking.